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Year 1404 (MCDIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.
  • October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX as the 204th pope.
  • November 19 – A St. Elizabeth's flood: A flood of the North Sea devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.

    • Date unknown

  • Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.
  • Stephan Tvrtko II succeeds Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia.
  • Peace is declared between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.
  • The University of Turin is founded.
  • Timur is hit by a fever while preparing to invade China.
  • Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria as ruler of the Principality of Achaea.
  • Virupaksha Raya succeeds Harihara Raya II as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day southern India.
  • Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat as King of Cambodia.
  • Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Óg MacDermot as King of Magh Luirg in present-day north-east Connacht, Ireland.
  • The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.

    • Births

  • January 18 – Sir Philip Courtenay, British noble (d. 1463)
  • February 14 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472)
  • March 25 – (baptism) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
  • June – Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1451)
  • July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
  • September 30 – Anne of Burgundy (d. 1432)
  • September – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (d. 1440)
  • October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (d. 1463)
  • date unknown – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (d. 1473)

    • Deaths

  • April 27 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
  • September 14 – Duke Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
  • September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (b. 1320)
  • October 1 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
  • October 15 – Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344)
  • December 13 – Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
  • date unknown – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (b. 1350)

    • References

    1404 Wikipedia
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